KTTV - News Operation

News Operation

KTTV broadcasts a total of 46½ hours of local news a week (8½ hours on weekdays and two hours on Saturdays and Sundays). However as is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, KTTV's Saturday and Sunday evening 5 p.m. newscasts are subject to preemption due to sports coverage. KTTV operates a Eurocopter A-Star 350 B-1, titled "SkyFox HD" to cover breaking news. KTTV previously operated two helicopters; one of them (known as "Sky Fox 2") was lost in 2000 after crashing at Van Nuys Airport (that helicopter had previously been operated by KTLA). KTTV's 10 p.m. newscasts had been top-rated in that time period for much of the 2000s; however, CBS-owned independent KCAL has been #1 since the end of 2010.

For a time during the mid-1980s, KTTV aired an 8 p.m. newscast, and moved its 10 O'Clock News to 11 p.m. in order to compete with existing local newscasts in that same timeslot on KABC-TV, KNBC-TV and KCBS-TV. The format initially was unchanged, but the 8 p.m. newscast was later dropped and the 11 p.m. newscast reverted to its previous 10 p.m. slot shortly after News Corporation took over Metromedia in 1986. KTTV stopped running cartoons on weekday mornings in favor of launching a new morning news program called Good Day L.A. in June 1993. Though Good Day L.A. was created in response to the longer-established KTLA Morning News (which premiered two years earlier), it was inspired by sister station WNYW's Good Day New York, which debuted on that station in 1988.

On April 17, 2006, KTTV launched a new on-air look for its newscasts, including new theme music (FOX O&O News Theme by OSI Music) and graphics, as well as a new station logo. Similar in style to the Fox News Channel, this look has been standardized by other Fox owned-and-operated stations. The station also launched a new website based on Fox Television Stations' new MyFox interface on May 16, 2006; this format became standard on the websites of each of the Fox-owned stations by the end of that year (the "MyFox" branded websites were operated by former News Corporation subsidiary EndPlay until 2012, when the sites were migrated to the WorldNow platform). On July 14, 2008, KTTV launched a half-hour 10 a.m. newscast, following Good Day L.A. (the program is currently helmed by morning anchors Tony McEwing and Jean Martirez, with Lisa Breckenridge as a features reporter) as the station's first midday newscast since the mid-1980s; KTTV is currently the only station in Los Angeles to have a local newscast in that timeslot. On December 8, 2008, the station also added a half-hour noon newscast, also anchored by McEwing, Martirez, Breckenridge and Maria Quiban.

KTTV and KCOP began producing its local newscasts in high definition on October 15, 2008, becoming the broadcast television stations in the Los Angeles market to do so. On December 1, 2008, KTTV fully took over production of KCOP's 11 p.m. newscast, which was reduced from an hour to 30 minutes and retitled Fox News at 11, marking the end of a KCOP-produced and branded newscast. The newscast on channel 13 then became anchored by KTTV's 10 p.m. anchors Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine, as it was considered an extension of the earlier newscast.

In 2009, Lauren Sanchez left to become a reporter for the nationally-syndicated entertainment news program Extra, and Maria Quiban was reassigned to weather anchor for the KTTV morning newscasts. On April 23, 2009, Rick Garcia left the station to join KCAL-TV to anchor that station's 8 and 10 p.m. newscasts, alongside Pat Harvey. On April 27, 2009, KTTV introduced Good Day L.A. Today, a recap program airing at 12:30 p.m. weekdays that featured select segments featured on that day's edition of Good Day L.A.; that show has since been replaced by TMZ on TV.

On April 12, 2010, the station expanded its weekday morning newscast by a half-hour to 4:30 a.m., anchored by Jean Martirez and Rick Dickert, bringing the station's news output to a total of 7½ hours each weekday. Until September 12, 2011, KTTV was one of only two Fox owned-and-operated stations (the other being Chicago's WFLD) that did not have an early evening newscast on weeknights and/or weekends; this changed when KTTV launched an hour-long 5 p.m. newscast on that date called Studio 11 L.A. On September 10, 2012, KTTV will expand local news programming on KCOP with the launch of an early evening newscast on weekdays titled Fox News at 7. The half-hour 7 p.m. newscast on channel 13 will be anchored by Carlos Amezcua and Christine Devine, who currently anchor the 11 p.m. newscast on that station, as well as KTTV's 10 p.m. newscast.

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